According to Variety, two Hollywood superstars, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon, are in talks to join Nolan's new film Oppenheimer. It's unclear what role Downey Jr. and Damon will play in the film.
Based on the Pulitzer-winning book by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer is a World War II biopic that focuses on the story of Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb" in the United States, who led the manufacture of the world's first atomic bomb in 1945. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures with a production budget of $100 million. The film will be released in North America on July 21, 2023.
Nolan is assembling a star-studded cast for the film, including Irish actor Cirrian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and British actress Emily Brown as Oppenheimer's wife. While the exact plot details have been kept secret, the story is expected to dramatize the process of creating nuclear weapons.